"Until clear resolutions are reached with the lender and certain others who seem intent on obstructing our path to success, the management team has directed the company to suspend certain operational functions, including the call center, until additional capital is secured," it read.

It further asks sales consultants not to close or process orders until the company can confirm they will be timely filled.

The financial troubles are the latest bad news for a company that employed 8,200 in 2000, but had roughly 100 recently.

JRJR Networks, the Dallas-based parent of Longaberger, recently announced it had until May 18 to file its 2017 annual report to regain compliance with the New York Stock Exchange.

The stock exchange announced on April 11, it planned to remove JRJR Networks from the exchange because the company’s common stock is no longer suitable for listing and trading on the exchange.

Longaberger, which owed $850,000 in property taxes in Licking County, vacated its Newark office building in July. The building sale to Canton developer Steve Coon and Cleveland resident Bobby George paid off the company's six years of delinquent property taxes.

The basket was built for $32 million and opened in December 1997. The building and surrounding property, once valued at $28 million, had been valued between $12 million and $13 million for more than a decade until it was further reduced to $8 million on Jan. 1, 2017.